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Boffins build FREE SUPERCOMPUTER from free cloud server trials

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Researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar have built a free LiteCoin-mining botnet that generates $US1750 a week using free cloud signup promotions.

Dave Wreski
Jul 29, 2014

Attackers raid SWISS BANKS with DNS and malware bombs

Attackers suspected of residing in Russia are raiding Swiss bank accounts with a multi-faceted attack that intercepts SMS tokens and changes domain name system settings, researchers have warned.

Dave Wreski
Jul 23, 2014

Evernote, Deezer and Feedly fess up to DDoS attacks

EVERNOTE, DEEZER AND FEEDLY have revealed that they have been struck by hackers, with the firms admitting on Tuesday to having suffered distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Alex
Jun 12, 2014

Want 'perfect' security? Then threat data must be shared

Here's a surprise for you: We actually have a fairly good understanding of who is attacking us on the Internet and why. Various entities know not only which groups are doing the attacking, but also the names of the people in those groups. They know where they live, who their family members are, where they went to school, and when they go on vacation.

Anthony Pell
May 13, 2014

'Snowden effect' has changed cloud data security assumption, survey claims

Edward Snowden

Dave Wreski
Apr 16, 2014

DNS-Based Amplification Attacks Key on Home Routers

DNS providers Nominum have published new data on DNS-based DDoS amplification attacks that are using home and small office routers as a jumping off point.

Dave Wreski
Apr 03, 2014

Hypervisors: The cloud's potential security Achilles heel

A cloud is only as secure as the hypervisors that support its virtual machines and how secure are those? That's a darn good question and one we tend to avoid looking at.

Dave Wreski
Apr 01, 2014

Hackers hijack 300,000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes

Researchers said they have uncovered yet another mass compromise of home and small-office wireless routers, this one being used to make malicious configuration changes to more than 300,000 devices made by D-Link, Micronet, Tenda, TP-Link, and others.

Dave Wreski
Mar 03, 2014

DDoSing a Cell Phone Network

The HLR/AuC is considered to be one of the most important network elements of a 3G network. It can serve up to five million subscribers and at least one transaction with HLR/AuC is required for every single phone call or data session.

Dave Wreski
Feb 26, 2014

Don't be a DDoS dummy: Patch your NTP servers, plead infosec bods

Security researchers have responded to recent denial of service attacks against gaming websites and service providers that rely on insecure Network Time Protocol servers by drawing up a list of vulnerable systems.

Dave Wreski
Jan 21, 2014

Cloud-based security services poised for rapid growth

The rush of businesses to move their operations to the cloud is creating a slipstream that's pulling security services into the nimbus.

Dave Wreski
Dec 24, 2013

The downfall of hacker collective Antisec

Hacker chronicler Quinn Norton spent months in 2011 and 2012 talking to members of the hacktivist collective Antisec, the division of Anonymous responsible for the leaked corporate emails that earned Jeremy Hammond a 10-year prison sentence.

Alex
Nov 25, 2013

OpenStack Cloud Vendors Vigilant in the Face of NSA Snooping

The Edward Snowden revelations about NSA snooping in the cloud are not having an impact on OpenStack cloud vendors, including Rackspace and Dreamhost.

Anthony Pell
Nov 12, 2013

Three types of DNS attacks and how to deal with them

The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, altered the DNS records used by the New York Times, Twitter, and the Huffington Post. The changes forced one site offline and caused problems for the others. Here are three ways such attacks happen, and how they can be mitigated

Alex
Aug 29, 2013

Network Security Remains a Blind Spot for Businesses

Areas of blind spots within the typical enterprise are many, including applications, network traffic, network devices and user activity.

Anthony Pell
Aug 07, 2013

Cloud insecurity? It's a perception problem

I've long been a believer that a judgement gap, influenced largely by negative media coverage, is what continues to hold back cloud adoption among small organizations. And judging from the results of a recent study completed by comScore, my intuition has been fairly on track.

Dave Wreski
Aug 02, 2013

Q&A: ownCloud Provides Secure File Sharing for the Enterprise

File storage and sharing using consumer-oriented cloud services can be a security problem for companies that want to avoid sensitive data leaks. ownCloud aims to solve the issue by offering commercial cloud services installed within a company's own datacenter.

Dave Wreski
Jun 11, 2013

Commission wants to turn tables on IP thieves by crippling PCs with extortion-style lock-outs

Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims.

Alex
May 28, 2013

Google's Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian

Google has been using its own custom version of Linux, Google Compute Engine Linux, as it loads its customers' applications into its infrastructure as a service.

Anthony Pell
May 13, 2013

Spammers dodge junk filters with Google Translate

Spammers are using Google's good reputation to dodge mail filters deliver their irritable spew to inboxes across the Internet.

Anthony Pell
Apr 04, 2013

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